Garment-supporter.



No. 639,875. Patented Dec. 26, I899.

J. G. WAGNER. GARMENT SUPPORTER.

(Application filed Sept. 18, 1899.)

(No Model.)

wiinzaam UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GARM ENT- SU PPO RTER.

SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent N 0. 639,875,- dated December 26, 1899. Application filed September 18, 1899. Serial No. 730,887. (No model.-)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN G. WAGNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, (Brooklyn,) in the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Garment-Supporter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to skirt-supporters; and the object thereof is to provide a cheap, simple, and effective device which will support the skirt and at the same time preserve the desirable smoothness of the bodygarment in the back.

With this object in View my invention consists of a transversely-arranged bar of flat metal having a central hook adapted to be attached to a loop in the back of the shirtwaist or other bodygarment and having downwardly-projecting extensions on each end provided with a socket to receive a springhead on a hinged securing member secured at the upper end of said extensions.

My invention further consists in certain details of construction, which will be specifically described hereinafter, pointed out in the appended claims, and illustrated in the several figures of the drawings forming a part of this specication, and in which-- Figure 1 represents a rear view of my invention applied. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective View of the same detached. Fig. 3 is an enlarged View of the loop secured to the bodygarment, which is engaged by the hook; and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view.

Referring now to the drawings by reference-numerals, 5 indicates a transverse bar, on each end of which is a downwardly-projecting extension 9, provided near its end with a socket 10. Hinged at 11 is asecuring plate or member 12 of the same general configuration as the extensions 9 and carryinga spring-head 13 in line with the socket 10 in the extension 9. These downwardly-projecting extensions and securing-plates are designed to engage a loop 14 of tape or ribbon on the back of the body-garment. A hook 15 is positioned intermediate the upper edge of the transverse bar 9 and is adapted to be engaged by a loop 16, formed on the rear of the skirt-band 17.

The application of my invention will be as follows: The hook will be made to engage the tape 16, and the loop on the garment will be drawn between the downwardly-projecting extensions and the hinged locking members. The spring-heads will then be sprung into the sockets and the Waist and skirt will be securely locked together. The belt will then be buckled in the ordinary manner after passing under the hook 15, as best shown in Fig. 4. Thus it will be impossible for the body-garment to creep up the back of the wearer, as the greater the weight of the skirt the more effective will be the result attained.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the device will readily perform the desired results and can be applied and removed from either or both garments at a minimum space of 'time without the necessity of sewing or ripping out stitches, as is done with most of the devices now on the market.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to obtain by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a garment-supporter,the combination with a fiat metal bar having a hook at its upper edge, of a depending extension having a socket near its end, and a hinged locking member provided with a spring-head adapted to enter said socket andbe retained therein, substantially as described.

2. In a garment-supporter,the combination with a flat metal bar arranged longitudinally the waist-band of a skirt, and having a central hook at its upper edge, of a depending portion at each end of the bar adapted to lie against the inner surface of the band, and having a socket near the lower end thereof, and a locking member hinged to said extension adapted to lie against the outside of the band and carrying a spring-head to enter the socket and lock the skirt to the extension and locking member, substantially as described.

JOHN G. WAGNER.

Witnesses:

AUGUST J. SEELWLZEE, GEORGE BITTNER. 

